From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #44 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, February 9 2002 Volume 11 : Number 044 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fufufufufuck [Capuchin ] Re: fufufufufuck [The Great Quail ] Re: i wish we could all be like david watts [gSs ] Re: I seem to be Pulp ["SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Sonoma,ex1)" ] Re: Brit Band Quiz ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re(2): Who's Got the Oldest Diskette? [glen uber ] RH MP3s [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: fufufufufuck ["FS Thomas" ] I think I like the Kinks ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 12:44:23 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: fufufufufuck On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, The Great Quail wrote: > Our current levels of unwavering support of Sharon do disgust me, > however. And I won't argue that we throw our weight around like a big > bully. But there's not a lot of attractive alternatives, given that we > wish to hold our interests. It's exactly that "given" that we need to question. We all know that our dependence on fossil fuels MUST end, but the powers that be do love their existing business interests and so changes to the status quo are no longer part of public policy. This will continue to be true as long as privateers run government and media. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:55:32 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: fufufufufuck Cappy elaborates, >It's exactly that "given" that we need to question. True, and that's exactly why I used it. Howevber, oil is not the sole reason we remain committed to the Middle East. There is also a religious/social commitment to the Zionist cause, be it for better or worse. Best, - --Q PS: Just for clarification, I fully support the right for a secure, internationally recognized, US-allied Israel -- behind 1967 boundaries in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Jerusalem and the Golan Heights I am more conflicted on, for various reasons. Syria is no Egypt or Jordan.... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:06:17 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: i wish we could all be like david watts On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Capuchin wrote: > We all know that our dependence on fossil fuels MUST end, Instead of looking for pratical ways "we" can end this dependence, I wonder if we should also include trying to limit "their" dependence on fossil fuels? What is the exact percent of the Saudi's GNP that is a result of oil? If Saudi oil export is reduced by even 20 percent, what will that do to their economy? Ok that is a stupid question. What I should say is what plans do they or we have to replace this commodity on which their economy so depends? This must be an issue but I have yet to hear it discussed. GsS ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 14:27:34 -0700 From: "SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Sonoma,ex1)" Subject: Re: I seem to be Pulp > http://www.couplandesque.net/boredom/british.htm I am Travis. Must be 'cos I'm an almost 'wegie and rip off everything I write. :) (H) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 16:43:42 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Brit Band Quiz I tried it once for fun, and got "Pulp." Then I tried it more seriously, and got "Radiohead." Neither of these surprised me; though I hear Oasis tried it out and got "LJ Lindhurst" as a result. - --Q - -- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ Quailpicks: Top Ten films, CDs, and classical releases of 2001: http://www.libyrinth.com/quail/raves.html "I'm not a critic, though I play one on the Internet." -- Doug Mayo-Wells ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 13:52:14 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Brit Band Quiz At 04:43 PM 2/8/2002 -0500, The Great Quail wrote: >I tried it once for fun, and got "Pulp." Then I tried it more seriously, >and got "Radiohead." I fufufufucking tried it and got Blink 182. What the hell?!!?!?! - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson OK, not really. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 17:17:31 -0800 From: glen uber Subject: Re(2): Who's Got the Oldest Diskette? Tom Clark wrote: >VisiCalc for the Apple II+. 1978? Speaking of which, does anyone how to get ahold of a copy of Olympic Decathlon for Apple ][e and the appropriate emulator to run it on OS 9? A friend of mine aked me about it the other night and said he'd love to have a copy of it for nostalgia's sake. - -- Cheers! - -g- "I'm not a big gambler, but I'm down with any activity that allows you to drink 24 hours a day." - --Mike Jasper +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ glen uber blint at mac dot com Just one piece of advice you might be able to use: SEVENTEEN ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 11:34:48 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: RH MP3s On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, matt sewell wrote: > Matty Groves has been covered by Robyn -it's actually available right on > this here interyweb: > > http://members.fortunecity.com/theodius1/element/rhsounds.html Errr...I tried to download this, and I get an error message stating that fortunecity.com does not allow the storage of this type of file (which, curiously, lists MPEG and AVI files rather than MP3s...). Is this available elsewhere? - --Jeff Jeffrey Norman, Posemodernist University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dept. of Mumblish & Competitive Obliterature http://www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 13:51:44 -0500 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: Re: fufufufufuck - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Capuchin" > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, The Great Quail wrote: > > We all know that our dependence on fossil fuels MUST end, but the powers > that be do love their existing business interests and so changes to the > status quo are no longer part of public policy. Reading that reminded me of a PJ O'Rourke quote I heard (again) just the other day: - --- We run out of things all the time. We4re way out of whale oil. Also, out of whalebones for corsets. Fortunately, the government of 150 years ago didn4t have presidential commissions, Al Gore, and the other apparatus of worry our present government possesses, or Washington might have foreseen this. Whale oil would have been rationed. A black market would have been created. Whale oil prices would have soared. All whales would have been killed immediately. And today we4d live in a dim, lampless world where Judy Collins sang duets with tuna fish and everybody had a waistline like Golda Meir. Instead, gaslights, petroleum-based whale-oil substitutes, electricity, and control-top panty hose were invented. When we ran out of whale oil, no one even noticed. - - Ecology / All the Trouble in the World (1994) - --- Not the warm, fuzzy answer we may like to hear, but it makes sense. I, for one, would love to see alternative fuel sources become more popular. More mainstream. The simple fact is, though, that until they HAVE to (and that's 'have' in all caps, denoting not a, 'because it's good for the [insert item here]' argument, but rather have as in 'well, shit, there's no more left') they won't. Why? Because re-tooling the Big 5's motor plants to something new would cost money, it would cripple the refinery/fuel transport/fuel retail industries, and render absolutely worthless thousands of square miles of non-irrigable land in this country and world-wide. Not to mention that the fuel cell technology currently at our disposal couldn't move an 18-wheeler full of lettuce a quarter foot much less up the east coast in a day and a half. Is the technology within our grasp? I wouldn't doubt it. But until there's an absolute need for it there won't be widespread investment in it, and without the research dollars there won't come advances. It may very well suck, but we'll more than likely continue to toil under the yoke of the internal combustion engine until there's nothing left to power them. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 18:16:50 -0600 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: I think I like the Kinks ...or, I think I like The Kinks. Recently, I bought a vinyl copy of "Something Else" for a $1. It was a good, clean copy, so I popped it on the turntable pronto. Whoa, hey there. Waitaminute. This is actually pretty good stuff. Despite Shel Talmy's slightly dated production, this is tasty music, far beyond the standard Kinks stuff I've heard on FM radio. I find myself returning to the album much more frequently then I expected I would. Are their other releases from that time in their career this good? I just might need to pick up some more Kinks LPs. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #44 *******************************